Juan Auz

The Legal Consequences of Climate Harm

Is there any complementarity between the ICJ's and the IACtHR's advisory opinions on climate change? I argue there is, specifically on attribution, causation, and remedies, albeit from specific approaches.

Thanks to @voelkerrechtsblog.org for the space and a shoutout to the symposium organizers!

Hi! I highly recommend Matt Huber’s Climate Change as Class War, from which I took that quote. The context is that capitalists' drive for profit is an abstraction, indifferent to the ruinous effects on our planet’s life support systems. It is not a new argument, but it is no less valid.

“Capital is a process of abstract violence to the materiality of the real world.”

- @matthuber.bsky.social

Yes, the ICJ Advisory Opinion is the hot topic, but don't forget about human rights law!

For insights on the Inter-American Court’s AO on climate emergency, listen to our chat with comrade @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social on #CalledtotheBar.

Thanks to @djag2.bsky.social for this brilliant podcast!

The ICJ just opened the floodgates for international climate litigation.

Now is the time when every single climate-vulnerable state must file a lawsuit against the imperialist fossil fuels axis, namely the US, the UK, OPEC countries, Norway, etc.

A new dawn for climate reparations!

Thanks for sharing dear ☺️

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights’ Advisory Opinion on the Climate Emergency: A Global South Contribution to Climate Governance On 3 July 2025, Justice Nancy Hernandez, President of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR), announced the issuance of the new Advisory Opinion on the Climate Emergency (AO-32). In front o...

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights’ Advisory Opinion on the Climate Emergency: A Global South Contribution to Climate Governance | by Juan Auz

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights’ Advisory Opinion on the Climate Emergency: A Global South Contribution to Climate Governance On 3 July 2025, Justice Nancy Hernandez, President of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR), announced the issuance of the new Advisory Opinion on the Climate Emergency (AO-32). In front o...

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights issued its Advisory Opinion on Climate Emergency earlier this month. There's a LOT to be said about its content, but for now, I am sharing my first impressions in case you are interested 😎

Cool! Is it open to the public? I'd love to attend in person :)

Folks are excited about the groundbreaking Inter-American Court’s Advisory Opinion.

It declares that the prohibition of significant environmental harm is jus cogens.

However, do you know what other prohibition is also a jus cogens norm and has been for a long time? Genocide!

How is that going?

The Inter-American Court just issued its advisory opinion on the climate emergency, and it is PATHBREAKING!

It recognizes the rights:

- to a safe climate
- of Nature
- And environmental protection as jus cogens!

Europe: No to a right to a healthy environment, and we are complicit in genocide 🫠

now in material form

“Replacing UN agencies with a private foundation and a private security firm further signals the political reframing of Gaza as a site outside the normal rules of international law.”

Thanks, Julia, for such an eloquent and thorough analysis of Israel’s attempts at outsourcing its obligations!

Gaza worse than hell on Earth, Red Cross chief tells BBC as aid centres close for day - live updates The president of the ICRC tells the BBC's international editor Jeremy Bowen Palestinians have been stripped of human dignity.

ICRC's Mirjana Spoljaric: Palestinians in Gaza have been stripped of human dignity.

24/🔥The judges have clearly established that the civil responsibility of fossil fuel majors can be engaged in the context of climate related harms.
🎉Here is the legal precedent that the #ClimateJustice had been awaiting - with significance well beyond Germany!

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Israel and the U.S. are starving Gaza to death.
Israel and the U.S. are starving Gaza to death.
Israel and the U.S. are starving Gaza to death.
Israel and the U.S. are starving Gaza to death.
Israel and the U.S. are starving Gaza to death.
Israel and the U.S. are starving Gaza to death.

Precaution as Obligation?

📃 @juanauz.bsky.social analyzes the IACtHR’s landmark ruling holding Ecuador internationally responsible for violations against the Tagaeri & Taromenane. The judgment advances Indigenous rights and frames the precautionary principle as a justiciable obligation.
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Precaution as Obligation?

I’m happy to share my insights on the Tagaeri and Taromenane v. Ecuador case before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.

I analyze the Court's application of the precautionary principle and its potential ripple effects.

Thank you @voelkerrechtsblog.org for the space and the editorial support.

Resisting Erasure This essential read provides clarity on the intertwined relationships of global capitalism, energy politics, and racial oppression, and challenges readers to rethink their understanding of Palestine. ...

i just head from a lil birdie (@pashukanist.bsky.social) that a new book (Rob insists on calling it a pamphlet but if it looks like a book and reads like a book) offering a Marxist analysis of the ongoing struggle in Palestine is about to drop
www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

Exactly this!

Climate activists who refuse to integrate anti-genocide and anti-imperialist dimensions in their political discourse and praxis because “it is unrelated” are not safe from fascism.

Saving the planet without liberating Palestine is likening gardening to Ecology.

‘We have failed to prevent genocide’ – Francesca Albanese We spoke to the UN Special Rapporteur for the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Francesca Albanese, for the Fourcast podcast.

‘We have failed to prevent genocide’ – Francesca Albanese
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After repeatedly violating every single commitment under the ceasefire, Israel is now fully resuming the genocide of the already destroyed Gaza concentration camp.

The world is watching.

History will remember who stood on the sidelines of this unspeakable atrocity.

Spirituality without class struggle and anti-imperialism is just alienation.

More genocidal statements from Israeli ministers:

Netanyahu Minister: 'Only Solution for Gaza Is to Empty It of Gazans,' God Sent Us Trump to Build Settlements
archive.ph/B04pB

This statement is quite discomforting. It is concerning that the organizers of the ESIL2025 conference at FU, the university that censored Albanese and Weizman’s talk, suggested that the censored event was “antisemitic.”

The statement is silent on that tactic of silencing. Will FU censor again?

Israel’s Actions Strike at the Foundations of International Law Only collective state action can end impunity.

THE HAGUE GROUP 🔴 As Israeli tanks roll into the West Bank, Presidents 🇨🇴
Gustavo Petro, 🇿🇦 Cyril Ramaphosa, 🇲🇾 Anwar Ibrahim, and Chair Varsha Gandikota-Nellutla explain why they’ve formed The Hague Group to curtail Israel's violations of international law.

If you think leftist rebels are political absentees, meet Leonidas Iza, an Indigenous Marxist who fared quite well in the recent Ecuadorian elections. He chairs the National Indigenous Confederation and led the 2019 strikes against neoliberal austerity. He wrote a materialist account of that event.

Call for Abstracts - Law & Marxism Spring School

😻 DEAR ACADEMIC ACTIVISTS/COMRADES 😻
The second edition of our Law & Marxism Spring School will be held at SOAS from 8 to 10 May 2025! Deadline 10/2!
We look forward to receiving your applications and cannot wait for the best days in May!
✊Help us to spread the word to reach all the comrades we can✊

Ridgeline chart showing the distribution of global daily air temperature differences from the pre-industrial reference period (1850-1900), for every year between 1940 and 2024. Each individual year resembles a hill, shaded in a darker shade of red and further to the right for warmer years. The trend is clearly towards warmer years, with 2024 standing out as first year above 1.5C.

NEW: 2024 has just been confirmed as the warmest year on record, and the first to breach the 1.5C threshold.

We used a ridgeline (Joy Division inspired) chart to visualise daily temperature anomalies since 1940.

2024 clearly stands out with 100% of its days above 1.3C and 75% above 1.5C.